The chart above shows miles of rail per thousand people in EU and US regions. It's rare to see the EU and US regions be so similar to each other. Usually, the regions of one superstate clump together but in this metric there is a weaving back and forth between EU and US regions.

The chart above shows miles of rail per thousand people in EU and US states. Surprisingly it is US states that lead in this metric and US states are the only ones with over two miles of track for every thousand residents.

The chart above shows the miles of rail per square mile of land in EU and US regions. The Europeans have more rail per unit of land than we Americans do which is not surprising at all. What is surprising is that the EU's region with the least rail coverage rivals the US's region with the most rail coverage.

The chart above shows the miles of rail per square mile of land in US regions. Three regions are all within a tenth of a mile of each other while the West only has a tenth of a mile of rail for every square mile of territory.

The chart above shows the kilometers of rail per square kilometer of land in EU regions. Clearly there is a sharp divide between the Western and Eastern EU and the Northern and Southern EU, with the former having around a-tenth of a kilometer of rail per square kilometer of territory and the latter having less than half that.

The chart above shows the miles of rail per square mile of land in EU and US states. The ten states with the greatest railway coverage are all in the EU. Illinois, which is the US state with the greatest railway coverage ranks 11th. On the flip side, the 14 states with the least railway coverage are all in the US with Greece, the EU state with the least rail per unit of land coming in at 15th lowest (excluding Hawaii, Malta, and Cyprus which have no rail networks).